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in documents Slup, an estate with a parish church in Szubin county, Kcynia deanery, 7 km. southwest of Szubin, on the Gasawka, a tributary of the Notec; it borders Dabrowka, Krolikowo, Szubska Wies, Kowalewo, and Wasosz. Slupy has its own parish and post office, the railway station is 12 km. away in Kcynia. It has 14 houses, 271 Catholic residents and 1 Protestant, 789 hectares of land (311 of fields, 293 of meadows, 20 of forest), a brick-making plant, a mill, a distillery, a cheese factory, and cultivation of Dutch cattle; the owner is Konstanty Zoltowski. In 1233 Drogomir, son of Piotr, signed his name as z Slupow [from Slupy], as did Mikolaj in 1399; in 1577 there were 2 fields owned and cultivated and 7 crofts, the number of which increased in two years to 13. The Polewskis owned this estate toward the end of the last century, then later the Sadowskis. Near Slupy a bronze urn and stone ax were dug up. The church, under the patronage of St. Wit, Modest, and Krescencya, existed before 1399; at that time Wojciech, Kamien castellan, and Mikolaj z Slupow donated the village of Gabin (Gombin), a mile from Slupy, to the church, and it is the property of the presbytery. Pastor Jan Prabucki erected a new, wooden church in place of the old one in 1730, and by 1840 a brick one stood on the spot. The parish, numbering 1,857 souls, consists of: Antoniewo, Babiagac, Chraplewo, Ciezkowo, Dabrowka, Katynka, Kowalewo, Krolikowo, Piardowo, Slupy, Smarzykowo, Smolarnia, Wasosz, and Wrzosy. There are parochial schools in Krolikowo and Wasosz. Laski writes of the presbytery's endowment in Liber Benificiorum, I, 144
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw
Submitted by: This translation, by William F. Hoffman, first appeared in the Summer 1996 issue of "Bulletin of the Polish Genealogical Society of America". (Nov 1998)
German name: Smentowken
A knightly estate in the powiat of Kwidzyn, post office and colony of Czerwinsk, Catholic church at Lalkowy; 320 hectares (about 790 acres - 5 acres of forest, 42 acres of meadows, and 652 acres of farmland). In the year 1885 there were 7 houses, 26 chimneyless huts., 149 inhabitants, 114 Catholics, 35 Evangelical Protestants. In times of the Commonwealth Smetowko belonged to the "Nowskie" district. In 1648 Mrs. Dembinska was paid 2 fl ("fl" stands for florin - a currancy of various countries in Europe) and 12 gr. ("gr." stands for "grosze" which is 1/100 of a "zloty"). Mr. Jan Czapski was paid 6 fl. and 12gr. (refer to the 1871 yearbook of Poznan, page 176). In 1710 Smetowko was giving 6 korce (old weight metric) of rye and the same amount of oats. In 1780, Konstantyna Wetphal inherited this property with 56 Catholics and 11 non-Catholics.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw
Submitted by: John Gorski - johng@fourgen.com (with help from "Beata") (Sep 1997)
German name: Smentau, in documents known as Smantow.
A manor farm in the kingdom owned by Ostrowitego, in the district of Kwidzyn, post office at Czerwinsk, Catholic church at Lalkowy.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw
Submitted by: John Gorski - johng@fourgen.com (with help from "Beata") (Sep 1997)
Sobiejuchy (So-byeh-you-hyh), Sobeiuca (year 1364), Szobyeyuchy (year 1523)
Located between the Lakes Sobiejuskim and Drobrylewskim in the Powiat of Szubin. About 7 km north of Znin where a Post Office is located. A Catholic Church St. Katherine's of Alexandria is located in Brzyskorzystew a distance of 3 km. A railroad station is located at Wapne about 15 km distant and an Inn/Tavern (Karczma) and settlement at Obrona Lesna 2 km distant. Here is located the Manor Farm of Jaroslaw Jaracewski an area of approximately 858 hectares, 583 of which are open area, 85 of meadow and 41 of woods.)
In the year 1364 it was written that Mikolaj came through the area. (Editors Note 1)
In the year 1577 there was here two settlements belonging to Katarzyna Sobiejuska, one of 200 morgs. The other was 300 to 450 morgs and 8 zagr. (zagroda) a croft, a small farmstead with a courtyard, buildings, and gardens, without farmers. In the year 1579 there was 7-1/2 Slad (Editors Note 2) on 700ˇV1125 morgs a settlement and 3 zagr. (zagroda) a croft, a small farmstead with a courtyard, buildings, and gardens. In the year 1618 5-1/2 Slad 500 to 750 morgs a settlement, 4 zagr. (zagroda) a croft, a small farmstead with a courtyard, buildings, and gardens with farmers and 3 without farmers and 1(komornik) tenant farmer, peasant who boarded at another s home. About the year 1793 the village was inherited by the Zlotnicki Family.
Editors Note 1 ˙ Mikolaj˙ Stories abound onˇ§the Bloody Devil of Venecja" - Mikolaj z Chomiazy (Nicholas from Chomiazy) who was the builder of the Zamek Venecja castle near Biskupin in the 1380's. Mikolaj actually existed and was a Judge in the Kalisz region for some 20 years. It is said that his reputation comes not from the severity of hisˇ§Judgementsˇ¨but the cruel and viscous manner in which he treated his subjects. Probably however he earned his nameˇ§Bloody Devilˇ¨after his feats in the 1383-86 civil wars between the magnate families. He is said to roam the castle dungeons at night!
Editors Note 2 ˙ Slady/Slad: a measure of land, roughly synonymous with "Lan". It is said to be equal to about 40 Magdeburg huby , or 100-150 morgs
Translated by Jim Piechorowski (June 2005), PGSA # 6005 / 6151; family : Piechorowski, Trzebiatowski
A village in the county of Zlotow or Zlotowo, 352 hectares (870 acres) in size, 30 (about 74 acres) in meadow, and 284 (about 702 acres) in fields. There are 34 dwellings housing 48 families, 255 inhabitants: 69 Catholics, 183 Lutheran. parish of Wawelno.
A knightly estate in the county of Zlotow or Zlotowo, with the folwarks of Zielonka (Grunthal): 5 dwellings, 101 inhabitants; Dzidzinek (Markenhof) and Polko, all told 1610 hectares (about 3978 acres), 319 (about 788 acres) in forest, 233 (576 acres) in meadow, and 893 (about 2206 acres) in field. All told 21 dwellings housing, 63 families, 408 inhabitants (170 Catholic, 238 Lutheran). parish of Wawelno.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 1890
Translated by Gerald R. Schmidt, Pittsburgh, PA, gshmit@PeoplePC.com (Feb 2003)
Srebrnagora in the past: Srebnagorka and Sebrnagorki, a village, church, and Manor Estate in powiat Wagrowiwckim and Zninski, in the deanery of Leknenskim, in Palucki about 12 km to the south of Kcynia, on the road to Zernik, near the highway from Kcynia to Janowca, and near the railroad from Gniezno to Nakel, in the lowland enclosed by hills; there is a Catholic Church and School in this place, a Post Office and Railroad station at Damaslawku (Elsenau) about 5 km distant.
Between the years 1386 and 1399 it is written Mikolaj Srebrnogorski is in Sebrna Gora; later the right of inheritance passes to Andzej Smoszewski (in the year 1687) Anna (House of Skrzetuskick) Bojanowska (in the year 1762) and Aleksander Moszczenski, ststa bresko-kujawski, the heir to Stepuchowa (in the year 1793). Sebrna Gora is a town in the year 1458 and provides foot soldiers for the crusade on Malbork. (Kod. Wielkp. Racz., str. 181); later they return to the village. In the year 1557 it is a settlement of 18 lan; in the year 1579, 6 occupied Manors and one empty, 4 zagr. Or small farmsteads with coutyards and gardens, 1 tenant farmer and a windmill.
There is a Catholic Church Sw. Mikolaja existing from the year 1450; a new Church was erected of brick in this place when the old one burned in the year 1845-46 (ob.Laski,Lib. Ben., 138-140); Here was introduced the fellowship: The Holy Rosary and Sw. Benona. The parish list 1913 souls, comprised of the villages of Aleksandrowo, Mokronosy, Podolin, Smoszewo, Srebrnagora, Turza and Wapno. The Duke of Poznan defined new boarders between the Manor Estates and the village, that is the farms of Sebrnagora ; some farms were left in the powiat of Wagrowiec, but a recently built Manor was included in the powiat of Zninskie.
(1) The village of Srebrnagora now has 10 homes and 89 inhabitants, 225 hectares comprised of 177 of tillable fields and gardens, 28 of meadow. There is a Manor / Folwork Aleksandrow , made up of two Manor properties ; 14 homes, 226 inhabitants, 1 Protestant; 768 hectares (520 of tillable fields, 116 of meadow and 31 of forest); clean profit from agriculture 13.32, from the meadows 13.71 and from the forest 3.52 German Marks; breeding and fattening cattle; the property is owned by Stanislaw Moszczenski.
(2) Srebrnagora, powiat Wagrowiecki, ob. Piatek
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego, Warsaw 1890, p. 153-154.
Translated by Jim Piechorowski (PGSA #6005), November 2005; families: Piechorowski, Piechurowski
Sroda [Wielkopolska]: formerly Srzoda, Szroda, Szrzoda, Srzeda, Szreda, officially Schroda, a city and county seat [powiat] in the Grand Duchy of Poznan, 30 km. southeast of Poznan, on the Poznan-Kluczbork railroad line, on a stream that flows into the Maskawa River. Sroda lies at 52 degrees 14' north latitude, 17 degrees 17' east longitude, 77.414 meters above sea level. It has two churches (one Catholic, one Protestant), a synagogue, a hospital and convent of the Sisters of Mercy, a railway station, a telegraph station, a second-class post office, a municipal savings bank, Polish loan and industrial associations, Polish and German agricultural societies, 3 doctors, a veterinarian, a pharmacy, 3 agents, a headquarters of the national defense, 19th regiment, and 4 fairs. It is the seat of the county authorities, 2 district commissioners, a district court, and a Civil Registry office. Highways lead from the city to Kostrzyn, Poznan, Zaniemysl, Nowe Miasto and Miloslaw. Several local wells contain sulphur sections.
As of 1885 the city itself, the railroad station, Jewish cemetery, Plantaz, and sugar factory comprised the municipal district, with 296 houses, 991 families, 4,855 inhabitants (2,349 males and 2,506 females; 3,863 Catholics, 688 Protestants, 30 Jews) and 1,184 hectares (990 of farmland, 68 of meadows); the net income per hectare of farmland was 18.80 marks, and 20.76 marks per hectare of meadows... The population is primarily Polish and is employed in agriculture, retail trade, and industry. Jews are not tolerated in the city. Germans and Jews have appeared there only since the beginning of Prussian rule
In 1578 the city paid a tax of 64 gold zlotys; the city's farmland included 42 traces of settlements. At that time there were in the city 18 butchers, 17 shoemakers, 16 tavern-keepers, 10 tailors, 9 landless peasant boarders, 7 furriers, 6 smiths, 4 coopers, 4 wheelwrights, 3 locksmiths and the same number of landless peasants, 2 each of linen drapers, salt dealers, and cap makers, one maltster, one stall-keeper, one cloth-shearer, one rope-maker, one harness-maker, and one saddler...
Circa 1795 Sroda had 1,009 inhabitants, 215 houses, a collegiate church, a chapel, a Dominican monastery, a customs-house, and 9 windmills; several years later there were 226 houses and 1,217 inhabitants (103 of them Jews), 40 shoemakers, 32 tavern-keepers, 16 tailors, 10 furriers, 8 millers and bakers, 7 linen-drapers, 4 musicians, 3 each of coopers, wheelwrights, and smiths, 2 each of potters, bakers of honey-cakes, cap-makers, dealers in oil, barbers, innkeepers, and dealers in iron, and a dyer, glazier, mason, locksmith, chimney sweep, and butcher. There were 12 fairs a year; income came to 963 talars, expenditures 997 talars [a coin = 3 German marks].
Circa 1809 there were 1,200 inhabitants (150 of them Jews); in 1837 there were 2,067 inhabitants, and in 1843 there were 210 houses and 2,183 inhabitants (1,534 Catholic, 311 Protestant, 338 Jewish). In 1858 there were 2,821 inhabitants. In 1871 there were 3,506 inhabitants: 2,680 Catholic, 498 Protestants, 328 Jews, 1,655 men, 1,851 women, 909 children below 10 years of age, 4 blind persons, 2 madmen, and 2 deaf mutes.
The church of the Assumption of Our Lady was in existence as early as 1276, because its priest is mentioned in the records. A new, Gothic-style brick church was erected in 1423 by Mikolaj of Kiki, Poznan canon and the local pastor, who elevated it to the rank of a collegiate church and established a rectory, dean, caretaker, and 7 canons there. This action was confirmed in 1428 by Stanislaw Ciolek, Bishop of Poznan. In the church are a bench and a column with an unreadable inscription dating from those times.
Documents from the year 1281 mention Kromolice (calling it Chomoruicze), a possession of the church, which was previously owned by the manorial farmstead called Topola ... The Confraternity of St. Ann has existed since 1640, that of the Scapular since 1663, and that of the Rosary since 1665. The Pepowskis added a chapel, that of St. Mary Magdalene, to the church; the Grzymultowskis adorned it, and the right of collation [the privilege of nominating a candidate for a vacant ecclesiastical position] belonged to the municipal authorities. Hieronim Gostomski built a second chapel in 1602, endowing it with Piotrowo and Daszewice, and conferred the right of collation on the Jesuits of Poznan. In the church and chapels are the tombstones of. Ambrozy Pepowski, Sieradz voivode (t 1510); another Ambrozy, Sroda starosta (t 1571); Anna z Ostroroga (t 1584); and Urszula z Sienawy Gostomska (t 1589)...
The St. John the Baptist Church listed in the index to the Kodeks Wielkopolski (No. 1109) as being near Sroda refers to Krerowo, because in 1330 Jan, the Bishop of Poznan, transferred to the church in Krerowo tithes and other contributions collected from Sroda. Also existing at one time in Sroda, besides the collegiate church, were: Holy Spirit Church, beyond the Poznan gate, which was ruined after 1700-its beginnings supposedly went back to the year 1350; All Saints' Church, in GŃreckie on the outskirts of town, from 1600 to some time after 1696; Church of the Immaculate Conception and of St. Idzi, on the outskirts of Pyzdry, from 1607 to some time after 1696; St. Sebastian Church, outside the city on the road to Gniezno, from ca. 1610 to after 1715. Holy Cross Church and the Dominican monastery were founded ca. 1420 by Jan of Opatowice, Bishop of Chelm (see Rev. S. Baracz, Rys. dz. zak. kazn.).
In more recent times, after monasteries were abolished, the Prussian government gave the former Dominican church to the Lutherans; the monastery was in ruins by the second half of the 18th century. The Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul have a small convent and a hospital in Sroda. The hospital at Holy Cross Church existed ca. 1599. The parish school, mentioned in 1639, has undergone various turns of fortune; it was burned down by the Swedes, stripped of its teacher, and the like, and ca. 1784 came under the care of the municipal authorities.
The city was formerly surrounded by a wall and a moat, filled from a nearby stream. Information on the castle of Sroda in 1312 is based only on inference; there are no, details on the fate of the starosta's castle.
Sroda parish, numbering 7,718 souls, consists of: Anna, Annopole, Babin, Bojnice, Bukowy Las, Czartki, Henrykowo, Jaroslawiec, Kopaszyce, Kijewo, Marcelino, Mieczyslawow, Murzynowo Koscielne, Petkowo, Plawce, Podgaj, Polazejewo, Romanowo, Sabaszczewo, Slupia, Sroda, Streszki, Tadeuszowo, Topola, Wlostow, Zabikowo, Zberki, Zdziechowice, Zielniki and Zrenica. There is a branch church in Murzynowo. As of 1860 the Protestant parish, in 79 settlements, numbered 618 souls, alongside 10,355 Catholics. Parochial schools exist in Czartki, Jaroslawiec, Murzynowo Koscielne, Polazejewo, Sroda, Tadeuszowo, and Zrenica. The deanery of Sroda includes 14 parishes: Bnin, Koszuty, Krerowo, Kurnik, Maczniki, Madre, Nietrzanow, Niezamysl (Zaniemysl), Rogalinek, Smieciska, Solec, Splawie, Sroda and Tulce, as well as two branch churches, one chapel, 17 priests, 41 parochial schools, 5 ecclesiastical hospitals, and 33,356 souls. The parish of Rumiejki has vanished; Bagrowo and Murzynowo were incorporated into other parishes; there is a chapel in Rogalin. The deanery of Sroda encompasses the southern half of the county, extending west to Srem county.
On the 17th-18th of August, 1231, Wladyslaw Laskonogi died in Sroda. In 1233 the lords of Great Poland gave Sroda and Sroda district, along with other sections, to Henryk Brodaty [Henry the Bearded]. In 1253, as a result of the division of Great Poland, Sroda went to Boleslaw, the brother of Przemyslaw. In 1261 Boleslaw, son of Wladyslaw Odonicz, who was staying in Sroda, conferred on potters the rights of German law. In 1312 the Silesian princes divided Great Poland; at that time Sroda was the seat of a county or district. In 1331 the Teutonic Knights burned the city, sparing only the Church of Our Lady. In 1369 the starosta of Great Poland, Przeclaw, sold a lan of farmland in Sroda to the soltys of Murzynowo, granting him various privileges. Undoubtedly as early as then there were already starosta courts being held there; charters from 1378 and later sources confirm this assumption.
In 1370 a local wojt appears in records. About this time Sroda received a charter under German law from King Wladyslaw, who in 1402 allowed the townsmen to buy back Zielniki, which was pawned to Henryk of Zimna Woda for 800 grzywnas. In addition to Zielniki the city possessed RuszkŃw (1578-1793). In 1517 it bought the village of Urniszewo from the Poznan chapter, and later it acquired Zrenica. The starostas took both these possessions from the city. [Omitted: a long list of detailed events that would interest only the most devoted local historians].
On July 25th, 1655 the Swedish army marched into the city and looted it; the same thing happened again in 1703. The Sejm of 1773-1775 appointed a commission to settle the case of the noble Zablockis with Wasilewski, the pastor of Sroda, over the borders of Jaroslawiec and Urniszewo with Topola, Zielniki, and the city of Sroda (Konstyt., II, 283). In 1791 Sroda became the seat of a powiat comprising part of Kalisz province. After 1793 it was incorporated into the Poznan Inspectorate; during the time of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw it belonged to the departement [province] of Poznan, and in 1815 to the Grand Duchy of Poznan. Sroda took an active part in the movements of 1848.
As of the year 1662 the starostwo of Sroda consisted of. Kleszczewo, Murzynowc, (Koscielne), Sabaszczew, Sroda, Trzebislawki and Zrenica. In modern measures these settlements covered 3,997 hectares (1,793 of them manorial, 1,020 rural, and 1,184 municipal). The Prussian government seized Kleszczewo and Trzebislawki, with an area of 1,302 hectares. Napoleon I gave Murzynowo, Sabaszczewo, Sroda and Zrenica, with an area of 2,695 hectares, to General H. Dabrowski. In 1729 the starostwo (along with that of Odolanow) paid a lan tax of 400 gold zlotys, and in 1771 it paid a kwarta of 1,058 gold zlotys, 15 pence, and a hyberna of 1,895 gold zlotys, 20 pence. At the Sejm of 1773-1775 it was given to Gozimirski, Wschowa wojski, as an emphyteutic possession [a long-term lease or deed of unused property, requiring the owner to improve it]. Its starostas included: Ambrozy Pepowski, died 1571; Hieronim Gostomski, ca. 1602; Stanislaw Grzymultowski; Jan Cerekwicki, 1673-1674; Sylwester Sezaniecki, 1771; and Gozimirski.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1890, vol. 11]
Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Spring 2000 Bulletin.
Also calld Starcz. In German Starz. A folwark belonging to Wielkie Chelmy in the county of Chojnice. Post office in Swornigacie (also Szwornigacie). In 1868 there were 7 buildings and 2 families. All told, 24 Catholic inhabitants.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 1890
Translated by Gerald R. Schmidt, Pittsburgh, PA, gshmit@PeoplePC.com (Feb 2003)
A village in the Suwalki powiat, Wizajny district and parish. Distance from Suwalki is 25 verst (approximately 27 km), 8 houses, 71 residents. In 1827 there were 9 houses, 74 residents.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1890, vol. 11]
Translated by Peter Wessner, PSG Texas Polish Footprints, Spring 2001 Periodical
A village in the parish and rural district of Kopciowo, Sejny county. It is 20 versts from the town of Sejny with 9 houses and 75 people.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1893, vol. 11, p. 370].
Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May 2004)
A village in Lancut county, with a railway station, that lies between Rzeszow and Lancut, on the plain at 202 meters above sea level, by an old river bed of the Wislok River. It borders with Krzemienica on the East, with Palikowka on the North, with Krasne on the West and with Kraczkowa on the South.
There is a park on the South side of the village, which belongs to Lancut castle. The Roman -catholic parish is in Krasne. This village includes of 102 houses (6 of them, bigger ones belong to lord of manor in Lancut) and have 491 inhabitants (472 - rom-cath, 7 evang and 12 jewish). The major land (property of the lord of manor in Lancut) covers 329 morgi of farm land, 17 morgi of meadows, 31 morgi of pasture and 60 morgi of forest. The minor land covers 369 morgi of farmland, 39 morgi of meadows, 39 of pasture and 1 morga of forest. The soil is sediment deposited by flowing water, fertile, and has pinewood.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 1890
Submitted by Jay M. Orbik and translated by Iwona Dakiniewicz - June 2002
A peasant village in the parish and rural district of Kopciowo, Sejny county. It is located 19 versts from Sejny. There are 6 houses and 75 people and a land area of 435 morgs. In 1827 there were 3 houses and 41 people and at one time it was part of the estate of Holny Wolmera.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1893, vol. 10, p. 539].
Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May 2004)
1) formerly Sobkowy, German Subkau, in documents
dating 1282 Sobcouo, Schobkow, Schobkow, Sopkow, Zopcow, an ecclesiastical
village in Tczew powiat, 11 km. south of Tczew, by the eastern railway
and the Tczew highway, on both banks of the stream Drybok (Drebeck),
a tributary of the Vistula, amid the fertile Gdan~sk lowlands. It
contains 21 peasant settlements and 26 farms, a total of 1,260 hectares
(20 of meadows, 1,133 of cultivated land). In 1885 there were
93 houses, 253 chimneys, and 1,134 inhabitants, 986 Catholic, 145 Protestant,
3 Jewish. In the village is a 3rd-class post office, a 3-grade
non-denominational school (in 1883 with 3 teachers, 182 children) and
the Catholic parish church of St. Stanislaw the Bishop. By the
church is a hospital for 5 paupers, a Rosary confraternity (from 1720)
and a Sobriety brotherhood (from 1857). The parish consists of:
Subkowy, Male Slonca, Maly Garc, Wielkie Slonca, Radostowo, Starzecin,
Brzuszcz, Warcimierz and Warcimierek, Gniszewo, Czarlin, Wielglowy,
Narkowy and Gorzedziej (branch church). In 1867 the parish, belonging
to Tczew deanery, numbered 3,762 souls, whereas it had 3,356 in 1889.
The brick church has a presbytery with a beautiful stellar vault; the
sacristy, vestibule and treasury date from ca. 1300, whereas the belfry
and nave with wooden ceiling come from the second half of the 14th
century. Noteworthy among the artistic relics are an eightarmed
chandelier from 1710 and a large bell from 1499 (see Bau- und Kunstdenkmale
der Provinz Westpreu§en, pp. 254-256, also given there is a sketch
of the church). The pastors here [as their names appear
in sources] were: 1) Johannes, plebanus in Sobcow (Pom. Ur.
B. von Perlbach, No. 670), 1309; 2) Jan Butow, 1483; 3) Bartlomiej
a Biecz, 1578; 4) Wawrzyniec Smugatius, 1635; 5) Marcin Smiglewski;
6) Albert Jozef Korpalewski, Tczew dean, 1682; 7) Jerzy Piotr Jesionowski,
1693; 8) Ignacy Rogaczewski, 1716-in 1718 he became the pastor in Skorcz;
9) Franciszek Ruthen, 1718; 10) Pawel Lazarowicz; 11) Tomasz Muchowski,
Tczew dean, 1750 (see Borek; Echo sepulchralia II, 618-621);
12) Wincenty Ignacy Schultz, 1780; 13) Andrzej Pomieczynski, 1848;
14) Aleksander Pomierski, 1861-1889; 15) Wojciech Ziemann, 1889. As
of 1687 the parish numbered about 600 souls. The pastor owned
4 wlokas
[1 wloka
= about 16.8 hectares, but this varied from one area to another]
and 3 gardens; the teacher was the organist; there were 2 paupers living
in the hospital (see Wizyt Madalinskiego, pp. 48-49). In
1710 the village contributed a Mass tithe of 32 bushels of rye and
the same amount of oats from 64 wlokas;
the pastor was supposed to collect 100 florins from the manor, but
the money was not paid at that time (see Wizyt Madalin~skiego,
pp. 167-169). In 1780, besides the places named above, the following
belonged to the parish: Brzezno, Lowiguz, Fyszbudy, and Kepa. In
the whole parish there were 2,141 Catholics and 46 non-Catholics, no
Jews. In the church library were the sermons of Faber, Steyn,
Chleb duchowny, and others. The pastor was Wincenty Ignacy Schultz,
Wloclawek and Kruszwica canon and official of the Archdeanery of Pomerania;
he stayed mostly at Szotland near Gdansk, where he maintained two curates. Subkowy
had 650 inhabitants (645 Catholic) (see Wizyt Rybinskiego,
pp. 39-5 1).
History. Subkowy, a "villa perampla" [very
large village], as Borek writes, is among the oldest settlements
in the area. During the reign of the Pomeranian princes Subkowy belonged
to the Kujavian bishops. In 1282 Mestwin transferred this village
and several others to Bishop Alber (P. U. B. von Perlbach, No.
341). Previously it had belonged to Michal, who, having switched
sides during Mestwin's war with the Brandenburg margraves and joined
his enemies, was exiled and his estates seized. After Mestwin's
death the family took steps to regain the property. During Przemyslaw's
first stay in Pomerania in 1295 Michal's sons, Mikolaj, Jerzy, and Rudolf,
along with their sons-in-law in Swiecie, filed suit against the Kujavian
bishop, Wislaw. But Przemyslaw ruled against them on the basis
of Mestwin's document. Subsequently, however, in 1300, Bishop Gerward
paid Michal's three sons 60 grzywna in denarii, for which they
renounced all claims to Subkowy. This payment became the cause
of a third suit in 1334 by Jerzy's sons and relatives, who showed some
letter allegedly proving that the bishops held Subkowy only in pawn.
The Swiecie judge Jan decided in the bishop's favor. From then on Subkowy
remained peacefully in the bishops' possession until the annulment of
the clergy's estates. In 1290 bishop Wislaw acquired Chelmno legal status
for the village from Mestwin ("jure Theutonico locandam", see P.U.B.
v. Perlbach, No. 465). Its incorporation ensued in 1301. In
that year Bishop Gerward bestowed the office of soltys of Subkowy
and Swaroz|yn on Henry, son of the Gniew soltys, and Jan de
Lywnow for 92 grzywna in Torurn currency, for the purpose of settling
this village under Chelmno law. The soltysi could possess 4 free
wl?kas and an inn, from which they were to pay 1 grzywna a year in St.
Martin's honor. They were also to judge all matters, lesser and greater,
but in the presence of the bishop's representative, and to keep for themselves
every third penny from the fines... [Omitted: a long passage describing
in detail feudal fees, tithes, and conditions of land ownership in the
area during the 14th century. This material might be fascinating for
students of medieval real estate and tax policy, but is unlikely to interest
many of our readers].
It is clear from the documents that all the Pomeranian estates of the
Wloclawek bishops were given to settlers. Only from the 16th century
do we possess names of Subkowy's settlers, who leased the area near Narkowy
(see Vol. VI, p. 911). The audit of 1760 reports as follows regarding
Subkowy: the Subkowy demesne in Tczew powiat had 3 folwarks, Sobkow,
Milobadz and Mieszczynin [sic; this appears to be a variation of
the name of the village Mieszczyn, which is presumably the village now
called Miescin]. In Subkowy the 2-story brick palace rebuilt
by Bishop Rozrazowski was tiled. There were 7 inns in the demesne: a)
one in Sobkowce [sic] in the middle of the village, with a wloka
of land free from taxes, the property of Wrobel, who received it from
Lichota along with a 1678 grant from bishop Sarnowski; b) a second one
at the same place, private property; c) one in Malinin; d) one in Mieszczyn;
e) one in Milobadz; f) another in the same place; g) one in Brzez|no. Beer
was taken to these inns from the Sobkowy [sic] and Milobadz
brewers, as well as distilled spirits from Subkowy. The meadows
and pasture-land in this demesne covered 588 morgs. There
were 6 soltys properties: two in Sobkowce [sic], one
in Malinin, Milobadz, Brzez|no and Mieszczyn, each with two wloka's.
The soltysi collected taxes from the peasants and were obligated
to send out a mounted messenger with letters. There were no forests
in this demesne, straw and peat were burned. The villages in this demesne
were: Subkowy, 68 wloka's; Brzez|no, 18; Milobadz, 29; Malinin, 26; Mieszczynin,
13. Reverend Sikorski, a scholastic, leased this demesne for 14,000
Prussian zloty's (see Majatki biskupie by Rev. Kujota, p. 59). A
note in Documenta varia (manuscript in Pelplin, p. 74), undoubtedly
dating from the 18th century, states: "This village was founded
by the Teutonic Knights on 80 wloka's, of which the castle possesses
12; the curate 4, free from taxes, the soltys also 4 taxfree wloka's;
each of the two inns has 1 wloka, and the remaining 58 are sown by the
community of the whole village" (p. 74). The local manor,
which is splendid, was for a long time a sort of second residence of
the bishops to whose diocese the Pomeranian archdeanery belonged. They
enjoyed staying there, especially after the people of Gdansk burned the
bishop's palace at Gorce,
near Gdansk, in 1414. At the beginning of the 14th century the
Brzesc wojewoda Albert visited the bishop here, and was named
as a witness in the records of a suit from 1339 (Scr. rer. pruss.,
I, 793). During the siege of Malbork in early August 1410 Bishop
Jan received the Gdansk ambassador Konrad Letzkau. It was surely
due to the bishop's influence that Gdansk shortly afterward swore allegiance
to the king (see Zeitschrift des westpreu§ischen geschichtlichen
Vereins, 16, 68). In 1626, during the first war with Sweden,
King Zygmunt III and his retinue stayed with the bishop. More than
once new priests were ordained in the spacious local church, and 10 times
the whole Pomeranian clergy gathered there for diocesan synods. A
separate home for the correction of the clergy was located by the bishop's
residence. The bishop's steward or starosta, usually some sort
of church official, always resided there. It was partially exempted
from the tax on crops and poultry from the bishop's estates. Today
only traces of the bishop's palace remain, and the bishop's chapel was
destroyed as well (Utrac. koscioly ks. Fankidejskiego, pp. 75-76). According
to Adlerhold the palace was already built by the 14th century, in the
days of Charlemagne, by the Kujavian bishop Maciej I (1323-66), and later
restored by Bishop Rozrazewski (1581-1600).
2) Subkowy, manor, same place, Radostowo gmina, parish church
in the village of Subkowy; 4 houses, 35 inhabitants.
3) Subkowy, a fiscal demesne, same place, 1 km. from the manor, 258 hectares
(219 cultivated, 15 meadows); in 1885 there were 8 houses, 20 chimneys,
118 inhabitants, 96 Catholic, 22 Protestant; cattle cultivation and a
dairy.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw
Submitted by: This translation, by William F. Hoffman, first appeared in the Fall 1996 issue of "Bulletin of the Polish Genealogical Society of America". (Nov 1998)
In documents, "Sumino". A village in Lipno county in the "Congress kingdom". In 1325 Franczko, called Schenko, together with his mother Clara and brother Adalbert, conferred a chapel on the Brothers of the Grave of Christ (the Miechovites) in their village Sumin, with the right of patronage and four hides of land, adding (at the same time?) 8 hides in the village of Konotop. The brothers were to receive a tithe in grain from the coloni (translator's note: coloni = kmieci: farmers with enough land, inventory and a horse, so as to be able to live off their land), free cutting in the forests, free pasturing and free fishing. -(Ulanow, dok. kuj. 305.20)
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 1890
Submitted & translated by Gerald R. Schmidt, Pittsburgh, PA, gshmit@PeoplePC.com (Feb 2001)
A village on the river Omulew in Ostroleka county, Wach
gmina, Myszyniec parish. It has 95 houses, 927 inhabitants, and 2,582
morgs of land. In 1827 there were 74 houses and 535 inhabitants. This
village lies in the territory of the ancient Myszyniec forest; it is
inhabited by Kurpie. It was part of the starostwo of Ostroleka. It
was already in existence as of 1660.
[Br{onislaw} Ch{lebowski}, Vol. 11, page 598].
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 1890, [Vol. 1, page 598]
Translated by William F. Hoffman, PGSA Winter 2003 Rodziny.
A village in the parish and rural district of Kopciowo, Sejny county. 38 versts from the town of Sejny with 5 houses and 26 people. In 1827, there were 4 houses and 18 inhabitants.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1893, vol. 11, p. 697/2].
Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May 2004)
or Sadlowice, formerly Szawlowice,
called Savlowycj in a document from 1282: an ecclesiastical
village, pastorate, estate and settlement, Inowroclaw powiat,
7 km. northeast of Inowroclaw (post office and railway station), halfway
to Gniewkowo, on the Poznan-Torun railroad; there are a parish and
school in the village.
In a 1228 grant Conrad of Mazovia gave the Dobrzynski brothers Dobrzyn
along with a bit of land on the right bank of the Wisla [Vistula river],
part of Dabie opposite Dobrzyn, and Siedlce (Sedlce, Sedlec) near Inowroclaw
(Dogiel, Cod. dipl., IV, 5); Pope Gregory IX confirmed this
grant (Theiner, Mon., 1, 17). What puzzles us in this
list of settlements is the 10-mile jump from Dobrzyn in the area of Inowroclaw,
but later grants of privilege bring us back close to Inowroclaw. After
joining with the Teutonic Knights the Dobrzynskis gave them their possessions. In
1234, by virtue of Conrad of Mazovia's treaty with the Knights, they
retained Siedlce, Orlow and Rojewo (Perlbach, Pr. Reg., n. 140).
In 1237 Kujavian bishop Michal attests that the Teutonic Knights, instead
of a tithe from Siedlce, were to pay an annual rent of 3 grzywnas to
the church in Kujavian Wyszogrod (Perlbach, Pom. Urk., 52, and Kod.
Dyp. Pol., II, 13). It is this Siedlce of the Knights that
the editors of the codices see as today's Szadlowice near Inowroclaw;
but in 1282 Szadlowice's name was in the form Szawlowice. So
this conjecture is without foundation.
Szadlowice at that time lay within the castellanate of Inowroclaw; its
owner was the castellan of Wizna, Mikolaj, who gave it to the Wloclawek
bishop Alber in exchange for Powsin in Czersk district (Kod. Dyp. Pol.,
11, 103, and Damalewicz). In 1583 there were in Szadlowice 14 peasant
fields, 2 soltys fields, 2 komornik fields, a zagrodnik, and a craftsman;
the parish included Wiotesy or Wioteszki, no longer in existence. The
Kujavian bishops owned Szadlowice up to the collapse of Poland; it was
then seized by the Prussian government and incorporated into the Gniewkowo
district office, then into the Inowroclaw demesne. St. Bartlomiej's church
was in existence before 1597; a new, wooden church was erected in 1763
by Antoni Ostrowski, bishop of Wloclawek, and Jan Borucki, the local
curate. The parish (in Gniewkowo deanery), numbering 1,000 souls, consists
of: Edwinowo, Latkowo, Raclawice, Skalmirowice, Slofisko, Szawfowice
and Wickowice. Since 1797 the Brothers of Divine Providence have been
at the church. The village and pastorate form a circle [or "district"]
with 32 houses, 371 inhabitants (348 Catholic, 23 Protestant) and 556
hectares (447 under cultivation, 80 of meadows). The manor of the bishops'
grange has 6 houses, 113 inhabitant (97 Catholic, 16 Protestant) and
260 hectares (238 under cultivation, 7 of meadows); there is a cattle-lot. The
settlement of Szadlowice (4 houses, 60 inhabitants) is part of the Wierzchostawice
manoral region. Edmund Callier.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw[Vol. 11, p. 763-764].
Submitted by: This translation, by William F. Hoffman, first appeared in the Winter 1996-1997 issue of "Bulletin of the Polish Genealogical Society of America" (Mar 1999)
A village in the parish of Lejpuny, rural district Kopciowo, Sejny County. It is 33 versts from Sejny with 9 houses and 94 inhabitants. In 1827, there were 5 houses and 57 inhabitants and it was in the parish of Sereje.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1893, vol. 11, p. 808].
Translated by Dorothy Leivers, Hadlow, Kent, England, Dorfleiv@aol.com (May 2004)
Szczuczyn [now Scucyn, in Belarus] called Szczuczyn Litewski, "Lithuanian Szczuczyn," a town on the Szczuczynka river, in Lida powiat, in the 3rd political district, center of a gmina and rural district, at 53 degrees 36' north and 22 degrees 18' east, on the mail route from Wilno to Grodno, a distance of 52 km. southwest of Lida [now in Belarus] and 146 km. from Wilno [Vilnius, Lithuania]. It has 123 houses, 1,088 inhabitants (as of the year 1866), an Orthodox parish church of brick, a Catholic church, a Jewish house of prayer, a parish school (78 boys and 6 girls in 1885). It is the site of the headquarters of its political administrative district and of its gmina, and has a pharmacy, a post office, a market every Sunday, and fairs on August 15 and October 16. The Catholic parish church of Jesus Christ was built of brick in 1829 by Prince Drucki-Lubecki. Before that there was a Catholic church in Szczuczyn made of wood, St. George's, which eventually fell into ruin. The Catholic parish, in the deanery of Lida, has 2,057 faithful. It had a chapel in Jatwisk. The Orthodox parish, Szczuczyn deanery, has 901 faithful. The Orthodox deanery of Szczuczyn [the exact term is blagoczynia, in the Orthodox church a provostry], comprises 10 parishes: Szczuczyn, Dziembrowo, Dzikuszki, Glebokie, Orla, Ostryna, Rakowiec, Sobakince, Turejki, and Wasiliszki, and it includes 10 Orthodox churches, 9 chapels, and 25,795 souls.
The gmina belongs to the 2nd district for peasant affairs, 2nd conscription district, and the 2nd judicial district, consisting of three rural districts (Szczuczyn, Krasne and Iszczolno), with 56 inhabited localities, 412 homesteads, and 6,596 peasant residents. The rural district includes the town of Szczuczyn and the following villages: Bale 1 and 2, Bartosze, Bujwicze, Dogi, Dubrowlany, Gierniki, Kulaki, Lack, Micary, MurawiŃwka, Nowosiolki, Ogrodniki, Planty, Podgajniki, Rogacze, Rzeszotniki, Topoliszki, Turowka, Worony, Wyzgi, Zaguny, Zarzecze, Zylicze, and the colony of Turya, for a total of 836 souls as of the year 1865, according to the rewizja.
Szczuczyn formerly belonged to the Scypio family, who, according to Balinski (Star. Polska, III), supposedly endowed a Piarist college and founded schools there. A 1726 resolution confirmed the Piarist college in Szczuczyn, and gives the name of its founder as Hlebicki-Jozefowicz, Polock wojski. The Piarists settled near the parish church, and, with the permission of the episcopal consistory, took possession of the secular priests' parsonage with all incomes and buildings. The Piarist college in Szczuczyn was quite prominent, and supported a Piarist seminary and academies, in which even Oriental languages were taught. In the year 1755 the college president was Lukasz Rosocki, professor of oriental languages. The other professors were: Kanty Wykowski, history; Jozef Szaniawski, theology; Eustachy Kurowski, moral studies; Wincenty Kloss, natural history; Jozef Ketrzynski, logic and metaphysics; and Wojciech Komorowski, elocution and poetry. In the year 1742 Teresa Scypio, nłe Hlebicki-Jozefowicz, the wife of the castellan of Smolensk, established a congregation of the Sisters of Charity there and founded a hospital. The educational committee for organizing national schools elevated the Szczuczyn school to the rank of sub-faculty [podwydzialowy] with three classes. After the Scypio's, Szczuczyn was transferred to the princes Drucki-Lubecki, in whose possession it remains to this day. - J[ozef] Krz[ywicki].
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1890, vol. 11, p. 864-865].
Translated by Barbara Proko, Boulder, CO and edited by Fred Hoffman. From the PGSA Summer 1998 Bulletin.
Two villages well known for their climate and health spa in the admistrative district (pow.) of Nowy Targ, under 38 degrees 9' long. geographically from F and 39 degrees 25' North lat.
Szczwanica Nizna is at the stream Russia also known as Grajcar(rt side in flow of Dunajec) and on stream Slotnica (inflow of Russia Stream). The lowest point of the village is 427 meters above sea level. The paved road extends to the west along the right bank of Stream Russia which flows into the Miedzus Valley, where the lower health spa is. Near gardens and wooden single or doubles houses like in Switzerland style, reaches road to the higher health spa, further to east you will come to valley known as Szczwanica Wyzna. There is a wooden church and beautiful small manor together with farm houses and farm equipment.
Szczwanica Wyzna lays at the inflow of the stream Sopotnica to Russian Stream (470 meters above sea level). In the valley of both villages and health spa to the west surrounds magnificent strand Pieniny Mountains , to the south between Dunajec and gorge Poprad starts borderline between Galicia and Hungary. From north Szczawnica Wyzna is hidden by ranges of mountains without specific name. They are covered with forest bog. These ranges are scattered between Dunajec and Poprod, looking from South Nowy Sacz Valley. As you walk from West to East you will come upon the highest points which are Blisur (833 meters), Zwonkowka (984 meters), Obidzna(892m.), Skalka (1198 M), Prehyba Wielka (1195m) and Radowa (1265m). These high points stretch about 4 to 6 km apart from Szczawnica. They protect the warm climate from north winds.
To the south from Szczawnica toward the east stretches steep mountains, Siodelki where upon evergreen grows and in between down below you can see hills with leaf forest. These hills protect Miedzius from South and they end at Polanica- a dome-like mountain. From Polanica to north of Szczwanica and Nowy Sacz hills is a beautiful view and to south of villages from Hungarian side. From Polanica to East is the tallest Jarnula(817m) and from here to south east is Rabszlyn (899m) together they look like ruins of the ancient castle.
From Rabszlym to east and south of Jaworki village stretch limestone mountains Skalka (1052m) also known by common people as Little Pieniny. Closer mountain from southside is volcanic Bryjarka with steep peak covered with snap -off rocks. From the health spa the peak can be seen from all sides, with the help of Father Kazimierz Skrzynski a huge iron cross on top, which was built in 1865.
The view to the west is cut off by Sokolica which is to the left of Dunajec. Szczwanica Nizna in 1880 yr had 132 houses and 732 people. (345 men & 369 women); 692 Roman Catholics and 21 Jews. Szczwanica Wyzna with majority of land had 387 houses; 1441 people (708 men & 733 women); 1318 Roman Catholics, 16 Greek Catholics and 106 Jews.
Mountain people known as "Spiszcy Gorale" were Christians. They dressed in their goralskie costumes which were very colorful.
Wladyslaw & Tylus Szalaya owned most of the land; 1772 morgi ( unit of land in Galacia- 1 morg= 1.422 acres) From this they had 122 mr of farmland, 161 mr fields, 3 mr fenced and 10 mr pasture, 1471 mr of forest. Concrete one story palace with wooden pavilion in Swiss style and there was a garden, very well kept that surrounded the manor house. There was a small pond with artificial fountain. There are beautiful and unique trees: Sycamore, Tulip tree, Life tree, Sumac, Copper beech, American pine, weeping ash. Further away is a church, a rectory and houses built from wood covered with wooden shingles facing south with large windows to let the light shine in and the farming buildings. Sometimes these houses have more than one room so that they can be rented to visitors if the spas don't have enough space.
Country folk had 1337 mr of farmland, 682 mr fields mostly on flat land between the mountains. They were called polany:732 mr pasture land on hills of mountains and 2278 mr of forest. Only wild oats grew in this soil, unless the soil was prepared very well. Then rye and barley may grow. Wheat seldom grew. Village had a school, mill, sawmill and brick foundry. The health spa had a post and telegraph office. Beside the church that was erected in 1550 there are 3 chapels:
At Miedzius, at the high spa and at cemetery and soon a concrete church will be done between two villages; at high spa and Miedziusu.
A long time ago, a blacksmith shop existed in Szczwanica in which multiple and bigger steel projects were done. It is closed now. Up to 1870 this parish belonged to Kroscienko. In both Polish and Latin curious documents from the XIV exist that Wyszga lord Janina owned Czorsztyn, Rytra and Lyemyansz Castle . Written about dug-out gold mines in Pieniny, he writes about Szczwanica (a Crosczenko dug-out at Szczwania Wyzna). Dlugosz (writer from Krakow) doesn't mention anything about Szczwanica.
In the year 1550, a parish was created in Szczwanica. In a chronicle that was written in 1581 (Pawinski, Malopolska 145) writes that Szczwanica has only 5 1/2 Lan (a field cultivated about 40 acres in size) Kmieci and 4 zagrodnikow with no land.
Up to 1811 all this belonged to the castle and ancient nobility of Czorstyn. Szczwanica is 7 kilometers from Kroscienko, from Piwniczna, 16 km in straight line. Even today the road is bad because of steep hills, the road that is plotted will be 20 km from Stary Sacz in straight line is 20 km. The road goes past Dunajec and because of winding of the river is 41.2 km long. The shortest distance through Kadcza and Obidza is 30 km long, steep and rocky and difficult. The spa started in 1828 yet it existed before that just as the village Szczwanica. There are 7 springs: Jozefin Szczepan discovered in 1838 by Josephine Szalaya (died 1838) owner of the village and builder of the spa. Magdalena 1838 & Waleria done in 1840. Four of the springs are in the high spa at the foot of Swiatkowki.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw
Submitted by: Patricia Smith, 928 Turkey Inn Rd., Ligonier, PA 15658 (Dec 1997)
Translated by: Rose Szczech
-in 1145 Selevo, 1357 Schlewo, 1361 Szelewo, 1580 Sielewo; village in Mogilno County, 3 Km south of Gasawa (parish and stagecoach station at the old Gniezno macadam road. School on the spot, railway station in Mogilno 16 km. Together with Roza Gora and Budy Szelejewskie makes a rural district of 52 homes, 417 inhabitants (367 Catholics, 38 Evangelics and 12 Jews), has 108 3hectares (813 arable land, 86 meadows). Royal land was granted to men of merits since Mieszko I, earliest written record known 1145.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 1890
Submitted by: Alice Nelsen, 2404 Belair Drive, Bowie, MD 20715 (Feb 1997)
A village in the Suwalki powiat, Wizajny district and parish. Distance from Suwalki is 26 verst (approximately 28 km). Has 13 houses, 102 residents. In 1827 there were 12 houses, 85 residents. Entered in the government property structure of Kadaryszki.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1890, vol. 11]
Translated by Peter Wessner, PSG Texas Polish Footprints, Spring 2001 Periodical
Szumowo, also Szumowa- Szumowski, Lomza gmina, previously called Somowa (in 1240 - Somowo) or Somowa Gora (mountain) (in 1420 Somowagora) the name was derived from the surname Som=Sum who leased the place.
Source: Slownik Etymologiczny Miast i Gmin PRL
Submitted by: Don Szumowski, 2211 Ontario Rd, NW, Washington, DC 20009 (Feb 1997)
Szydlowiec, village, Mielec county, amidst a pine forest,
at the headwaters of the Babulówka (a tributary of the Wisla,
near Baranów). Roman Catholic parish in Ostrowy Tuszowskie;
situated 5 kilometers to the east from Mielec, it lies on a plain at
an elevation of 182 meters above sea level. The larger estate (that
of Mojesz Hermel) comprises of 42 farms, 19 meadows, 1,430 forests,
12 mórgs of sandy dunes; the lesser estate has 115 farms, 58
meadows and gardens, 14 pasturelands, and 19 mórgs of forest.
The village has 24 houses, 160 inhabitants (85 men, 75 women); 153
Roman Catholics and 7 Jews. The nearest settlement to the northwest
is Wola Chorzelowska, on the southeast is Toporów. This village
in the first tax collection list of 1662 (Pawinski, Malopolska, 55a)
was registered as belonging to the parish in Mielec. This portion of
the backwoods of Sandomiersz forest only became inhabited in the 17th
century.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa
Polskiego - Volume XII, Pages 100-101- Warsaw 1890
Submitted by: Anthony Paddock, 5015 Birney Ave., Moosic, PA 18507
Szymbory
1) a settlement in the district of Nowominski, township
of Chroscice, parish of Kaluszyn. It had 30 inhabitants with 47 acres
of land.
2) an area of noble families in the district of Mazowiecki, township
of Szepietowo, parish of Jablon Koscielna. In this area can be found
three villages: 1) Szymbory Andrzejowieta - in 1827 it had 13 houses
and 89 inhabitants, 2) Szymbory Jakubowieta - in 1827 it had 14 houses
and 73 inhabitants, and 3) Szymbory Wlodki - in 1827 it had 14 houses
and 73 inhabitants. It is mentioned as early as 1527 in the court deeds
of that year (source: Zygmunt Gloger - The White Land).
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 1892
Submitted by: Jerry Gieraltowski - gieraltowski@lucent.com (April
1998)
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